FREESTYLE LIFE

POLISH TITLE: ŻYCIE STYLEM DOWOLNYM

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Freestyle life is a story of the art of putting up the fight, when the game involves the most competitive rivals – ourselves. Resistance to the determinism leads towards stubborn challenging oneselves to consecutive duels. The surface of the screen that precisely keeps the viewer from reality resembles the surface of water that separates swimmers from their disability.

Cinematographer, director and photographer. Palenta is a graduate of universities in Poznań, Katowice, Opawa and Warsaw who won numerous honorary diplomas and awards, among others for his photography to the short feature film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room (dir. K. Czekaj). Apart from documentary and feature films he also makes video clips and TV commercials. The documentary film Freestyle Life is his directing debut, produced by the Andrzej Munk Studio as part of the project The First Documentary.